Quotes About Enlightenment

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

I am become a transparent eyeball.

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.